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Mt. Moosilauke (1886) - "The Moosilauke"

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". . . Concord enterprise, largely, has given the charming Moosilauke region one of the finest hotels of its size in the whole mountain country of New Hampshire, and thus opened the way for it to become as popular and widely known as it deserves.

The destruction [1883] by fire of the old Breezy Point house in Warren left vacant for the past two seasons a most eligible site for a summer hotel, and also removed an important link in the connection between the outside world and Mt. Moosilauke's plateau-tipped summit, about which is unfolded one of the grandest mountain panoramas of the universe.

This was the situation when, a few months since, a new company was formed by Messrs. A.B. and E.B. Woodworth and Willis D. Thompson of this city, Charles S. Keene of Boston, John F. Thayer of Nashua, and Hon. E.F. Mann and Chester Abbot of Woodsville. The large farm of from 200 to 800 acres which comprised "Breezy Point" was purchased, the well known architects, Merrill & Cutler, were engaged, contracts were made, and on Thursday last, fifteen weeks after the first blow was struck, "The Moosilauke" threw open its doors, a monument to the enterprise of the gentlemen named above, the excellent taste of the architects, and the workmanship of the mechanics and artisans who had a share in its construction. . . ."

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From "A Visit to Moosilauke," p. 114-123, The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol.1). ©1999.

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